From Liberalism to Post-liberalism

Author: Ying Qi
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The theme of this book is to explore Western liberalism and its historical destiny. Based on a systematic review of the theoretical types and developmental threads of Western liberalism, the author examines the theoretical debate between liberalism and communitarianism. From the perspective of the conceptual history of negative and positive liberty, the author clearly explains how proceduralist political views synthesize, transcend, and go beyond the two main philosophical traditions of liberalism and republicanism. The author also, through a case analysis of the debate between Rawls and Habermas, demonstrates the political evolution of cultural pluralism since the 1990s and reveals the new changes in the development of contemporary Western political philosophy.